Jeff McDonald: Iverson will play with fractured finger

X-rays on Allen Iverson’s sore ring finger taken Monday afternoon revealed a non-displaced fracture, but the Denver guard doesn’t expect to miss tonight’s game against the Spurs.

Doctors told Iverson before the game they didn’t think he could do further damage by playing with the injury.

“That’s the whole thing,” Iverson said. “If it don’t get any worse, then I can play through it.”

Iverson originally injured his finger in a scramble for a loose ball in Friday night’s victory over the Spurs in Denver. In the minutes leading up to tonight’s game, Nuggets team doctors were trying to convince Iverson to wear a wrap on the finger.

He agreed to try it out in warm-ups.

“Once I go out and shoot, if it don’t feel right, or I don’t make enough, it’s coming off,” Iverson said. “I just don’t like having anything on my shooting finger at all. Especially on a finger that has a lot to do with my shot.”

Before he left the locker room to try out his wrapped finger, Iverson was reminded of the story of former Knicks great Bernard King, who once scored 50 points with three broken fingers. Iverson, needless to say, was impressed.